/fabric-sandbox

Highly experimental sandbox for Fabric mods.

Primary LanguageSwift

Fabric Sandbox

Highly experimental windows sandbox for Fabric. The sandbox aims to act as protection not prevention, thus any exploits / security issues should be made publicly to this repo.

This sandbox should have little to no performance overhead as it runs the game within a Windows App Container.

Testing tips

To validate that the game is running within a sandbox use Process Monitor and enable the "Integrity" column and check for "AppContainer"

File access should be limited as follows:

  • Read+Write working directory
  • Read .minecraft
  • Read Java home (of the JDK being used)
  • No registry access

Network access is enabled, but may have restricted access to localhost as per the UWP defaults. For debugging purposes use CheckNetIsolation.exe LoopbackExempt -is -p=<CONTAINER_SID> from an elevated command prompt. See here for more info.

Future improvements

  • Less Privileged AppContainer (LPAC), allows for fine grain control to almost all aspects of a machine.
  • Access token protection
  • MacOS and possibly Linux support

Requirements for building

  • Requires ARM64 or x64 Windows 10 or 11
  • Swift for windows either official or from github.com/thebrowsercompany/swift-build
  • Wix installer tools dotnet tool install --global wix --version 5.0.0 (Used to extract the swift redistributables)

FAQ

  • Why swift?
    • Writing new security software in C++ does not seem like a good idea
  • Why Windows only?
    • The vast majority of players and malicious code is on Windows.
  • Where is the swift source code
    • Its in windows/Sources

License

This repository does not have an official license yet as I do not want people using this in production. You may learn from the code and improve it but please don't distribute this, as it's far from battle tested. I would strongly recommend opening an issue before thinking about creating a PR. Thanks for understanding.